Gloucester Fishermen Claim to be ‘Running Away’ from Cod; Question Assessments
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Boston Globe] By David Rattigan - Septembr 11, 2017
GLOUCESTER — The clatter reverberated in the refrigerated cold as workers offloaded fish and wheeled full bins into a storage area on Fisherman’s Wharf. The catch was sorted, weighed, labeled, and eventually loaded onto large trucks headed for New York.
It was a big haul, but not a big payday for Tom Testaverde Jr., captain of the Midnight Sun.
Back from a three-day trip, Testaverde estimated that he and his five-member crew had caught about 20,000 pounds of silver hake — also known as whiting, a seasonal fish popular in the New York City — which is typical for Ipswich Bay at this time ...
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